Summary
Chemical recycling, complementary to chemical recycling is crucial for a circular economy. To increase plastic recycling, a rapid scale-up of mechanical and chemical recycling capacity is needed.
This 5-point plan explains what needs to be done for chemical recycling to help tackle more plastic waste and contribute to a circular economy:
- 1) Create an EU Single Market for waste and end-of-life resources
- 2) Recognise all recycling technologies across all EU legislation
- 3) Recognise a verified mass balance approach to calculate recycled content in plastics
- 4) Ensure the reliability and workability of mass balance
- 5) Drive investments into plastic recycling R&D programmes and new business models.
Ultimately, this will help achieve the EU circularity objectives and secure the EU’s strategic autonomy.